The Dalai Lama is turning 90 and has announced that he will be reincarnated – but China also wants to choose his successor.

Tenzin Gyatso,  the 14th Dalai Lama, was only 23 years old when he fled Tibet in March 1959 into China. His arduous journey, which started from Lhasa where he disguised himself as a Chinese soldier, ...

The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...

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A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify ...

Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the decision regarding his successor lies solely with the Tibetan spiritual leader.

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

DHARAMSHALA – As he approaches his 90th birthday, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, announced on July 1 ...

The Dalai Lama has become one of the world’s most recognizable figures while leading a Tibetan diaspora through their ...

Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama can choose the body into which he is reincarnated. His succession plan is ...

Tibet’s spiritual leader laid out plans for his succession, a process that is expected to face interference from China.

The Tibetan spiritual leader said that his lineage would continue, and that China would have no say about his successor.